Alcohol
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 77-86 , August 2003

Measuring the appetitive strength of ethanol: use of an extinction trial procedure

  • Herman H Samson

      Affiliations

    • Center for the Neurobehavioral Study of Alcohol, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1083, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-336-716-8590; fax: +1-336-716-1515.
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  • Cristine L Czachowski

      Affiliations

    • Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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  • Ann Chappell

      Affiliations

    • Center for the Neurobehavioral Study of Alcohol, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1083, USA
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  • Brooke Legg

      Affiliations

    • Center for the Neurobehavioral Study of Alcohol, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1083, USA

Received 28 May 2003 ,Revised 19 July 2003 ,Accepted 23 July 2003.

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PII: S0741-8329(03)00192-7

doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2003.09.002

Alcohol
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 77-86 , August 2003

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